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Two down-and-outers, each with an orphan complex, get wrapped up in a hot car ring involving criminals, bad cops, gangsters, and a missing Shelby Cobra that everyone and their mother seems to want.
The Southern food critic, television host, and award-winning author Morgan Murphy has signed with Daniel Pancotto and Jon Kanak of Magnet Management in all areas of representation.
Australian writer-director Lisa Robertson has signed with Daniel Pancotto and Jon Kanak of Magnet Management. Most recently, she completed her short film Commerce, which has the potential to become a feature-length film, with a draft already written.
French filmmaker Pierre Teulières has signed with Mike Esola at UTA and Jon Kanak at Magnet Management after a competitive signing process reached its conclusion.
The exciting new spec Hummingbird from John McClain has landed at Fundamental Films after heating up the film market and getting the attention of several major studios and production companies. Swedish directing team Marcus Kryler and Fredrik Akerstrom is attached to direct.
Centers on a man in a lonely spaceship orbiting Neptune as he fulfills his dream to rebuild his dead wife and their son as androids, but when the androids begin demanding a life of their own, his life is suddenly in danger and a battle of wits and strength ensues. 
MTV is in the works with a contemporary drama series based on the H.G. Wells classic alien invasion novel. Teen Wolf series creator Jeff Davis will executive produce and staff writer Andrew Cochran is penning the pilot.
The hot spec Hummingbird from writer John McClain is hitting the market with production company Broken Road leading the way. The project already has Marcus Kryler and Frederick Akerstrom attached to direct and actor Shailene Woodley interested in starring.
In what we’re hearing was an extremely competitive situation, Magnet Management and Condé Nast have secured the rights to an article published in The New Yorker this week, “We Live in the Pop-Culture World That Lou Pearlman Created” by John Seabrook with plans to develop the story into a limited series.
